Monday, April 23, 2012

The Amazon in Google Street View

Mrs. Gallagher's students are exploring the seven continents through books, stories, video, and Google Maps Street View. Each week, we read a story, nonfiction book excerpt or video clip from one of the seven continents and then explore that area at the street level with Google Maps. So far we have visited the White House in North America, underground caves in Japan, a South African township, and this week we will go to the Amazon.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

MyQuest Book Club

Third grade students are learning how to use the MyQuest book club. Students can organize books in our library catalog into the shelves, "Want to Read", "Have Read", and "Now Reading". They can also recommend books from our library to friends within the MyQuest book club system.